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For Broadwater, All Eyes Are On Albany
Peter Applebome gives the four reasons Broadwater is still alive, in today's Times:One is the bottomless pockets of its big-energy sponsors, TransCanada Corporation and Shell Oil. The second is support, overt and covert, in New York, where the City C...
The New York Times on Broadwater: "Let's Not"
Today is not a happy day in Broadwater-land. With two weeks to go before New York State's deadline for deciding the Broadwater issue, the New York Times has weighed in with an unequivocal NO!...Here is our position on Broadwater, the quarter-mile-lon...
When FERC Approves Broadwater This Week, Call It What It Is -- A Sham Decision
It seems as if the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will make its Broadwater decision at a meeting in Washington on Thursday (here and here for details). The decision of course will be an approval – the FERC staff has already said it doesn’t ...
David Paterson's First Broadwater Comment
Here's David Paterson's first comments on Broadwater, in response to a question at a press conference today:On the second question on Feb. 5 the governor gave a six-week decision on Broadwater. I don’t know what his decision would have been. I migh...
Rell Criticizes FERC Over Broadwater, Wants to Talk to New York's New Governor
No sense waiting, I guess. Jodi Rell says she'll soon be picking up the phone and calling David Paterson to tell him why Broadwater is such a bad idea. The final report from Connecticut's LNG task force is coming out today, by the way, and not surpri...
The Broadwater PR Battle is in Overtime
I haven't seen what, if anything, Broadwater has been doing on the PR front over the past two weeks. Maybe it's flooding the airwaves with ads, maybe it's organizing a grass roots movement of proponents, maybe it's holding secret meetings with govern...
I Might Be Deluded But I Think That Ultimately New York Will Reject Broadwater
Broadwater's proposal to put a huge LNG terminal in the publicly-owned waters of Long Island Sound was dead last week. I'm convinced of that. The Department of State was prepared to issue a decision saying the obvious -- that there's no way in the wo...
Here's What Happened on the Broadwater Issue Yesterday in Albany
I should have checked this before I wrote this. And I should have known better than to write it without checking....
What Happened on the Broadwater Issue in Albany Yesterday?
Here’s today’s question: What did Governor Spitzer tell Adrienne Esposito when they met to discuss Broadwater in Albany yesterday? Adrienne, the head of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, got the meeting after learning and expressing her unha...
